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Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Klaan. Riding a three game point street coming

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Speaker 1: into Edmonton here today a wild schedule. You play five

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Speaker 1: on the road, go home for thirty six hours, and

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Speaker 1: then head here to Edmonton, wrap up the first leg

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Speaker 1: of this road trip for the Crack and again you've

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Speaker 1: got points in three straights. The results are starting to

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Speaker 1: come at a crucial time in the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we uh, you know, I thought we

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Speaker 2: were pretty good for the most part on the trip.

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Speaker 2: I thought we got better as we've went along. In

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Speaker 2: the last three games. It started to look a little

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Speaker 2: bit more like we did before the break, just in

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Speaker 2: terms of making some plays, a little more fluid with

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Speaker 2: our hockey game. But you know, the battle level's been high,

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Speaker 2: the commitment's been high, the goaltending's been good for you know,

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Speaker 2: groupies played well for.

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Speaker 1: Us, and.

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Speaker 2: You know, we just need to keep collecting points. It's unfortunate,

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Speaker 2: you know, to shootout losses, and you know it's unfortunate

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Speaker 2: we need those points. But at the same time, you know,

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Speaker 2: we're we're battling, so we've got a big hockey game night.

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Speaker 2: To your point, we went home, spent the day at home,

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Speaker 2: get rejuvenated, come back here to Edmonton, and we know

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Speaker 2: what the magnitude of this game is.

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Speaker 1: Last handful of games, you've been getting contributions from the

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Speaker 1: players that you're expecting to get contributions from. Bobby McMahon,

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Speaker 1: Coppo Cocos, Tanler Stevenson snapped a twelve game goal drought.

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Speaker 1: What does it mean this time of year to be

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Speaker 1: getting that from those players and what more can you

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Speaker 1: do to challenge these players to find that extra level?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think there's anything more we can do

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Speaker 2: to challenge these players. They're veteran guys. They've been through

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Speaker 2: it before and you know, they know we've reminded them,

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Speaker 2: but certainly they know that they have to be up big.

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Speaker 2: You know, right now. You need these guys at this

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Speaker 2: time of the year. Our younger players, you know, they're

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Speaker 2: in this growth process, you know, and if you look

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Speaker 2: at their point production, it hasn't been that high. So

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Speaker 2: we need we need our veteran players to step up.

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Speaker 2: And we've had that over the last little bit. We

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Speaker 2: need to continue out of that.

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Speaker 1: What's the focus here to say that against an Oilers

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Speaker 1: team that historically has given the crack and some issues,

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Speaker 1: especially here in this building. But there's also been some

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Speaker 1: pretty good battles between these two teams over these last

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Speaker 1: five years. Going into this one tonight, no dry title

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Speaker 1: for them, still very dangerous. What can the crack and expect.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're just an offensively dynamic hockey team. If you

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Speaker 2: look at every category of offense, whether it be odd

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Speaker 2: man rushes for whether it be slot shots, whether it

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Speaker 2: be creating chances off of for check every category, and

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Speaker 2: trust me, in this day of the analytics, there's a

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Speaker 2: million of them almost there in the top five. You know.

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Speaker 2: We have to defend well and we have to make

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Speaker 2: sure that when we get the puck, we make plays.

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Speaker 1: And we own the park. You know, as.

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Speaker 2: Much as they are great offensive, you know, they're not

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Speaker 2: as good defensively as they are offensively. So we need

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Speaker 2: to challenge them. Don't sit back, you know, you can't

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Speaker 2: sort of watch. They will have some zone time. They

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Speaker 2: like to spread you out in the zone. They've done

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Speaker 2: it to every team they've played against. The last few

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Speaker 2: games we've watched them, Utah had a heck of a

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Speaker 2: hard time with them. You know, we just got to

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Speaker 2: make sure that we keep our heart rate down and

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Speaker 2: make sure that we go after them and get the

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Speaker 2: puck back and make some place